We have a few family traditions that we participate in during the month before Christmas. We do knock and runs (where we make treats or buy them and put them on neighbors front doors. We then knock and run without leaving a note as to who its from. But we do usually have a cute poem or something that goes along with it). We open Christmas presents on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas day. We decorate gingerbread houses and if we are in Oklahoma, the children always go to Nanny and Poppys and decorate cookies.
And when it is time to put up Christmas decorations (almost always the Saturday or Sunday after Thanksgiving) we put on Christmas music and just enjoy the laughs!
And with a house full of boys, you are going to get weird things put on the tree. Yes, like toenail clippers!
Or a random trumpet!
And then I have my boy who is sensitive to the ways some things feel and has to wear gloves so as to not have to feel the fake needles on the tree (that's a new one for this year).
By the end of the night, the trumpet had an old picture of Brigham on it. It actually really made us laugh hard. David liked it so much, we have kept it up there! And I can't forget that we always end the night with eggnog.
And I just thought I'd end with a picture of David and I from last Sunday. I love this man so much! That's one tradition that will never change.
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